The Nanking Massacre

The Nanking Massacre (1937), and the entire Japanese occupation of China during WWII is one of the most often ignored and horrific chapters of recent history. In total more than twenty million Chinese would die as a result of the Japanese occupation, seven million killed directly. Aside from the mass killings in Nanking, the Chinese population endured unspeakable treatment including the war crimes of mass rape, torture, and human experimentation. To this day the Japanese government acknowledges its awful pre-war behavior but insists that because no record was kept at the time, modern Japan cannot pay reparations, charge individuals with war crimes based on testimony, or do more than briefly refer to very censored versions of the incident in textbooks.